Initial Release & Future Plans


First, a huge thank you to everyone who has downloaded & /or shared this! It was very fun to make and I'm excited & hopeful to see what people do with it.

Second, I wanted to mention a few planned improvements:

  • There are still a handful of wonky rivers that narrow inexplicably or flow in weird 'ladder' patterns. These are artefacts from the tool I used to convert from a raster flow accumulation map to a vector layer; I don't have a better fix than just going through and adjusting problem areas by hand, but I'm working on it!
  • I'm hand-drawing new icons to replace the public domain ones I've been using, and when they're ready I'll re-render the maps and upload them as an alternate version. I'm also planning on adding some basic castle, town, lair, & dungeon symbology to a new layer in the QGIS file so that one could easily add points of interest and re-render the maps.
  • The 600×800 mile maps are pretty unwieldy in terms of both hex count & file size, so I'm planning to add some maps of selected smaller, geographically-interesting areas. I'd like to make these work on letter/a4 paper, so I'll also export versions with a greyscale color scheme for printing. 

I want to make this as useful as possible, so suggestions are welcome! In particular, if you have your eye on a particular region and would like for it to be included in the set of smaller maps, let me know.

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